I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that, subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. -- E. W. Dijkstra
Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people. -- Matz, LL2
Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even. -- Paul Graham
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every language looks (like) a Lisp :) -- Lament, #[email protected]
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Anonymous
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. ~Ray Goforth
Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. ~Anonymous
The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra